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Planning sustainable and resilient food systems : from soil to soil
Author
Title
Planning sustainable and resilient food systems : from soil to soil / Julia Freedgood.
ISBN
1003293719
1040049702
1040049729
9781003293712
9781040049709
9781040049723
9781032276854
9781032276861
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 274 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 19, 2024).
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
Julia Freedgood is Senior Fellow and Senior Program Advisor at American Farmland Trust, where she focuses on planning, policy, and programs to support farmers and ranchers, protect farmland for farming, and advance sustainable and resilient food systems.
Summary
"Covid-19 was a canary in a mine. It exposed the vulnerabilities of 21st Century food systems but did not create them. Since then, the world has faced a "polycrisis:" a cluster of weather-related crop failures, war-induced food and energy shortages, and import dilemmas with compounding effects. Going forward, we need to plan for more sustainable and resilient food systems which improve environmental outcomes and address economic disparities. But food systems planning is a relatively new discipline and guidance is scarce. This book fills that gap. Where most food systems planning has focused on urban issues, this book takes a holistic view to include rural communities and production agriculture whose stewardship of the earth is so critical to public and environmental health, as well as to ensuring a varied and abundant food supply. Its goal is to inform planning practices and follow-up actions for a wide range of audiences-from professional planners, planning commissions and boards, to conservation districts and Cooperative Extension, to the on-the-ground change-makers working to strengthen America's food and farming systems. Embracing the fact that the U.S. is highly diverse in its people, places, and politics, the book lifts up principles and successful examples to help communities develop strategies based on their unique assets and the needs and preferences of their people"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Freedgood, Julia. Planning sustainable and resilient food systems New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Chapter 1. Why plan for food and agriculture?
Chapter 2. The public framework for food systems planning
Chapter 3. Principles and practices to guide planning for food and agriculture
Chapter 4. Federal policies that affect food systems
Chapter 5. Land use policies that support farms, farmland, and food
Chapter 6. Programs and policies to sustain agriculture
Chapter 7. Programs and policies to support community food security
Chapter 8. Evolving issues
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Genre/Form
Electronic books.
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